What is CVE-2025-14797?

CVE-2025-14797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kometschuh Same Category Posts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-01-24.

How severe is CVE-2025-14797?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Kometschuh Same Category Posts

CVE-2025-14797

The Same Category Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget title placeholder functionality in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.19. This is due to the use of `htmlspecialchars_decode()` on taxonomy term names before output, which decodes HTML entities that WordPress intentionally encodes for safety. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (12.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Kometschuh Same Category Posts — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14797?: CVE-2025-14797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kometschuh Same Category Posts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2026-01-24.
How severe is CVE-2025-14797?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.